..3% of those "absolutely against" (p<0.01). PEG users were more likely to have initiated health care proxies. These findings suggest that patients who use PEG may be consistently proactive in the face of the disease...

Effect of a social work liaison program on family caregivers to people with brain injury

..This reflects the extensive use of Medicaid-based home care services in New York City. As dementia worsened, substitution of formal for informal care was rare, but formal care assumed a greater proportion of total care hours...

..6% used hospice, 48% had signed a power of attorney form, and 18% had 'do not resuscitate' orders in their medical charts. Examining time to such endpoints captures important features of patient and family experience with the disease...

Hospitalization and Alzheimer's disease: results from a community-based study

Use of latent class analyses for the estimation of prevalence of cognitive impairment, and signs of stroke and Parkinson's disease among African-American elderly of central Harlem: results of the Harlem Aging Project

J A TeresiColumbia University Center for Geriatrics and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, N Y 10032, USANeuroepidemiology 18:309-21. 1999

..These results indicate that a relatively large proportion of elderly community residents of central Harlem evidenced or reported health problems, any or all of which may constitute a public health challenge...

..CAG repeat length was inversely correlated with time to NH admission and PEG (both p < 0.001), independent of age at onset. CAG repeat length may influence disease progression to late-stage outcomes in addition to age at onset...

An observational study of cognitive impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

..Clinical and pathologic features overlap in frontotemporal lobar dementia and ALS. Demographics, respiratory status, bulbar site of onset, and disease severity are potential risk factors for cognitive impairment in ALS...

..To examine the course, clinical correlates, and relationship between cognitive status and psychopathological features in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) followed over a 5-year period...

..At all stages, family caregivers expressed significant isolation, anxiety, and depression. Therefore, home care agency practice and public policies should provide better education, support, and services for family caregivers...

The rate of cognitive decline and risk of reaching clinical milestones in Alzheimer disease

..Several markers of immune activation have been identified as potential prognostic markers for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated morbidity and mortality, but the results from studies are conflicting...

Relevance of race and ethnicity for self-reported functional limitation

..Similar results were observed in the subsample of participants with arthritis. These results suggest that culture or socioenvironmental differences associated with culture may influence reports of functional limitation...

Self-care and professionally guided care in osteoarthritis: racial differences in a population-based sample

..Recently, many cancer patients have been using the Internet for information with which to make informed choices. We are not aware of any studies that investigate this Internet use among breast cancer patients or women...